A prominent gay-rights activist and former U.S. presidential candidate hopes to build “the biggest, loudest and most comprehensive” legal case ever mounted for revoking the tax-exempt status of the Mormon church. Republican political operative Fred Karger, a longtime critic of …

For more than a century, Mormons have been telling a straightforward story of their movement’s miraculous founding, prophetic leadership and heroic believers.
During the past few years, however, they have been confronted with a dramatic, almost revolutionary, retelling, with fresh details, context a...
For more than a century, Mormons have been telling a straightforward story of their movement’s miraculous founding, prophetic leadership and heroic be...

A prominent gay-rights activist and former U.S. presidential candidate hopes to build “the biggest, loudest and most comprehensive” legal case ever mounted for revoking the tax-exempt status of the Mormon church.
Republican political operative Fred Karger, a longtime critic of LDS Church involvemen...
A prominent gay-rights activist and former U.S. presidential candidate hopes to build “the biggest, loudest and most comprehensive” legal case ever mo...

The MRI scan of Auriel Brunsvik Peterson’s brain, taken during a religious experience, was lit up like a Christmas tree.
Peterson, 29, has been a devout Mormon her entire life. But seeing that image was the first time her belief was more than abstract.
“I finally have a small shred of physical evide...
The MRI scan of Auriel Brunsvik Peterson’s brain, taken during a religious experience, was lit up like a Christmas tree.
Peterson, 29, has been a devo...

During National Alzheimer’s Disease Awareness Month the Alzheimer’s Association is focusing its attention on the unique challenges facing Alzheimer’s and dementia caregivers, specifically helping caregivers recognize and manage caregiver stress.
Caring for a person living with Alzheimer’s or anot...
During National Alzheimer’s Disease Awareness Month the Alzheimer’s Association is focusing its attention on the unique challenges facing Alzheimer’s...

A Utah County businessman was more ashamed of his drug addiction than his million-dollar frauds, his attorney told a 3rd District judge Monday.
That’s why it took so long for the “good Mormon” to admit he had a drug addiction for the past six years while he was defrauding friends and companies, atto...
A Utah County businessman was more ashamed of his drug addiction than his million-dollar frauds, his attorney told a 3rd District judge Monday.
That’s...

A fire caused significant damage to an LDS Church building in eastern Idaho on Tuesday afternoon.
Fire crews were called to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints meetinghouse, at 3109 Swan Valley Highway in Swan Valley, about 2 p.m. after someone reported smoke coming from the building, ac...
A fire caused significant damage to an LDS Church building in eastern Idaho on Tuesday afternoon.
Fire crews were called to the Church of Jesus Christ...

Provo • The view from the arched, rainbow stained-glass window has been pretty much the same for more than a century: craggy mountains rising dramatically over Provo and the towering salmon-color sanctuary that long has been the heart of the city’s Mormon faith.
But these days, the vista from the h...
Provo • The view from the arched, rainbow stained-glass window has been pretty much the same for more than a century: craggy mountains rising dramatic...

Honolulu • On Sunday, Aug. 17, 1941, thousands of Mormons gathered on a stunning city square less than 10 miles from Pearl Harbor to dedicate what would be the last tabernacle the LDS Church would ever build.
Hawaiian believers as well as visitors from the U.S. mainland marveled at the open-air desi...
Honolulu • On Sunday, Aug. 17, 1941, thousands of Mormons gathered on a stunning city square less than 10 miles from Pearl Harbor to dedicate what wou...

ZCMI loved to proclaim that it was America’s first department store.
For 132 years, it enjoyed a reputation for quality. Vogue, Mademoiselle, Glamour and Seventeen magazines held fashion shows there, and made it their exclusive local outlet. Flashy window displays won international awards....
ZCMI loved to proclaim that it was America’s first department store.
For 132 years, it enjoyed a reputation for quality. Vogue, Mademoiselle, Glamour ...

Provo • Mormon missionaries at the Provo Missionary Training Center have some advice for those missing family or friends this holiday weekend: The best way to beat homesickness is to focus on those in need.
And so in the spirit of service — and in an effort to put what they were missing from their m...
Provo • Mormon missionaries at the Provo Missionary Training Center have some advice for those missing family or friends this holiday weekend: The bes...

Editor’s note: This topical story is a reprint of an article originally published in November 2013.
Even given its oversized plates piled high with mashed potatoes, smoked turkey, homemade stuffing, candied yams, a plethora of vegetables and pumpkin pie — followed by after-dinner lethargy — Than...
Editor’s note: This topical story is a reprint of an article originally published in November 2013.
Even given its oversized plates piled high wit...

Cornbread stuffing — with its texture, time-consuming recipe, and taste — is Brenda Weech’s favorite Thanksgiving dish.
It conjures images of Weech’s mama cooking it up for her and her brother in the Texas panhandle, and waiting to be devoured when they all got home from their annual holiday trek to...
Cornbread stuffing — with its texture, time-consuming recipe, and taste — is Brenda Weech’s favorite Thanksgiving dish.
It conjures images of Weech’s ...

For more than a century, Mormons have been telling a straightforward story of their movement’s miraculous founding, prophetic leadership and heroic believers.
During the past few years, however, they have been confronted with a dramatic, almost revolutionary, retelling, with fresh details, context a...
For more than a century, Mormons have been telling a straightforward story of their movement’s miraculous founding, prophetic leadership and heroic be...

Without the work of Edward L. Kimball, few Mormons would know the details of the groundbreaking 1978 revelation that changed the course of their faith’s history.
It was Kimball who penned candid and meticulously researched biographies of his father, the late LDS Church President Spencer W. Kimball, ...
Without the work of Edward L. Kimball, few Mormons would know the details of the groundbreaking 1978 revelation that changed the course of their faith...

Mormons who want to get into LDS temples must have a card, a “temple recommend” that certifies not only that they live a certain, institutionally prescribed orthopraxy, but also that they have verbally assented to a number of ideological-theological propositions.
Among the questions that LDS authori...
Mormons who want to get into LDS temples must have a card, a “temple recommend” that certifies not only that they live a certain, institutionally pres...

About three-fourths of the world’s citizens live in a country where they can’t freely exercise their religion and many do so in the face of great risk, possibly even death, a top State Department official said Friday.
But David Saperstein, the State Department’s ambassador-at-large for internationa...
About three-fourths of the world’s citizens live in a country where they can’t freely exercise their religion and many do so in the face of great risk...

Johnisha Demease-Williams had a serious case of culture shock when she arrived at Brigham Young University last fall.
Despite being loaded with thousands of young people who shared the black student’s LDS faith, the Provo campus was nothing like the multicultural Mormon congregation in Houston that ...
Johnisha Demease-Williams had a serious case of culture shock when she arrived at Brigham Young University last fall.
Despite being loaded with thousa...

Attorneys for four Navajos suing the LDS Church over alleged sexual abuse said Wednesday they intend to subpoena the faith’s president, Thomas S. Monson, to testify about the former program that placed children in Mormon homes off the reservation during the school year.
The remarks came after a fe...
Attorneys for four Navajos suing the LDS Church over alleged sexual abuse said Wednesday they intend to subpoena the faith’s president, Thomas S. Mons...

When Gov. Gary Herbert and Superintendent Sydnee Dickson issued a joint statement last week condemning harassment and bullying in schools after Donald Trump’s election victory, they encouraged students to be tolerant and compassionate toward their classmates.
Perhaps they should have addressed thos...
When Gov. Gary Herbert and Superintendent Sydnee Dickson issued a joint statement last week condemning harassment and bullying in schools after Donald...

The day after U.S. voters elected Donald Trump to serve as the nation’s 45th president, Steven McDaniel and Alister Cedeno got a marriage license from the Salt Lake County clerk’s office and tied the knot.
It wasn’t the wedding they had planned, but the couple worried they couldn’t wait.
“[The gay ...
The day after U.S. voters elected Donald Trump to serve as the nation’s 45th president, Steven McDaniel and Alister Cedeno got a marriage license from...

For 40 years, Mormon apostle Boyd K. Packer’s advice to teenage boys about their “little factories” was widely distributed inside the LDS Church and widely mocked outside it.
Now the pamphlet “To Young Men Only” — which addressed the issue of masturbation to help boys as they navigate puberty — has...
For 40 years, Mormon apostle Boyd K. Packer’s advice to teenage boys about their “little factories” was widely distributed inside the LDS Church and w...

Without the work of Edward L. Kimball, few Mormons would know the details of the groundbreaking 1978 revelation that changed the course of their faith’s history.
It was Kimball who penned candid and meticulously researched biographies of his father, the late LDS Church President Spencer W. Kimball, ...
Without the work of Edward L. Kimball, few Mormons would know the details of the groundbreaking 1978 revelation that changed the course of their faith...

Washington • President-elect Donald Trump’s appointment of chief strategist Steve Bannon, who has ties to the so-called alt-right — and has promoted rhetoric critical of Mormons — has raised concerns about his influence over the incoming administration.
Bannon, who headed Breitbart News, an outlet t...
Washington • President-elect Donald Trump’s appointment of chief strategist Steve Bannon, who has ties to the so-called alt-right — and has promoted r...

Donald Trump’s shocking election victory last week relied heavily on motivating most reliable Republican voters to go to the polls for him. But he significantly underperformed among the GOP’s most tried and true voters — Mormons.
Nationally, Trump received 61 percent of the vote from members of The ...
Donald Trump’s shocking election victory last week relied heavily on motivating most reliable Republican voters to go to the polls for him. But he sig...

Idaho Falls’ newly renovated Mormon temple will reopen in June, nearly 27 months after it closed for an interior makeover.
The Utah-based Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints announced Friday that the temple, located near the city’s namesake water feature along the scenic Snake River, will we...
Idaho Falls’ newly renovated Mormon temple will reopen in June, nearly 27 months after it closed for an interior makeover.
The Utah-based Church of Je...